Saturday, February 28, 2015

The Pulp Magazines Project has just added 8 issues of "dime novels" and "nickel weeklies" that were published between 1892 and 1922 to its website. The titles include Frank Reade Library, Tip Top Weekly, Nick Carter Weekly, Deadwood Dick Library, Buffalo Bill Stories, All-Sports Library, All Around Weekly, and Wild West Weekly.

Publishers represented by this group include Street & Smith, Beadle & Adams, The Winner Library Co., Frank Tousey, and Harry E. Wolff. Information and metadata listed alongside each issue includes publication date, year established, publisher, and an estimated total number of issues published.

For more information on the dime novels as a 19th-century publishing phenomenon, check out Tim DeForest's chapter on "Dime Novels," from Storytelling in the Pulps, Comics, and Radio: How Technology Changed Popular Fiction in America (2004).

About the Project

The Pulp Magazines Project is an open-access digital archive dedicated to the study and preservation of one of the twentieth century's most influential literary & artistic forms: the all-fiction pulpwood magazine. The Project also provides information on the history of the medium, with biographies of pulp authors, artists, and their publishers.